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224 DUNCKFRLEY
DYE
his previous character and conduct having
proved satisfactory, on May 7, 1767, the king
ordered Dunckerley to receive a pension of
£100, which was subsequently increased to
£800, together with a suite of apartments in
Hampton Court Palace. He also assumed,
and was permitted to bear, the royal arms
with the distinguishing badge of the bend
sinister, and adopted as his motto the appropriate
words "Fato non merito." In his familiar
correspondence, and in his book-plates,
he used the name of " Fitz-George."
In 1770 he became a student of law, and in
1774 was called to the bar ; but his fondness
for an active life prevented him from ever
making much progress in the legal profession .
Dunckerley died at Portsmouth in the year
1795, at the ripe age of seventy-one ; but his
last years were embittered by the misconduct
of his son, whose extravagance and dissolute
conduct necessarily afflicted the mind while it
straitened the means of the unhappy parent .
Every effort to reclaim him proved utterly
ineffectual ; and on the death of his father, no
provision being left for his support, he became
a vagrant, living for the most part on Masonic
charity . At last he became a bricklayer's
laborer and was often seen ascending a ladder
with a hod on his shoulders . His misfortunes
and his misconduct at length found an end,
and the grandson of a king of England died a
pauper in a cellar at St. Giles .
Dunckerley was initiated into Masonry on
January 10, 1754, in a Lodge, No . 31, which
then met at the Three Tuns, Portsmouth ; in
1760 he obtained a warrant for a Lodge to be
held on board the Vanguard, in which ship he
was then serving ; in the following year the
Vanguard sailed for the West Indies, and
Dunckerley was appointed to the Prince, for
which ship a Lodge was warranted in 1762 ;
this warrant Dunckerley appears to have retained
when he left the service, and in 1766
the Lodge was meeting at Somerset House,
where Dunckerley was then living . In 1768
the Vanguard Lodge was revived in London,
with Dunckerley as its first Master, and it
exists to the present day under the name of
the "London Lodge," No . 108.
In 1767 he joined the present "Lodge of
Friendship" ; in 1785 he established a Lodge
at Hampton Court, now No. 255. In 1767
he was appointed Provincial Grand Master of
Hampshire, and in 1776 Provincial Grand
Master for Essex, and at various dates he was
placed in charge of the provinces of Bristol,
Dorsetchire, Gloucestershire, Somersetshire,
and Herefordshire . In Royal Arch Masonry
Dunckerley displayed equal activity as in
Craft Masonry ; he was exalted at Portsmouth
in 1754 and in 1766 joined the London Chapter,
which in the following year became a
Grand Chapter.
He was especially active in promoting Arch
Masonry all over the country and was in
charge .of Essex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Devon,
Somersetshire, Gloucestershire, Kent, Suffolk,
Sussex and Durham .
He was also a most zealous Knight Templar,
being in 1791 the first Grand Master of the
Order when the Grand Conclave was formed
in London.
He was also a Mark Mason . A Charge, or
Oration, is still extant, which was delivered
by him at Plymouth in April, 1757, entitled
"The Light and Truth of Masonry Explained ."
He was also the author of "A Song for the
Knights Templars," and of an "Ode for an
Exaltation of Royal Arch Masons." These
will be found in Thomas Dunckerley-his
Life, Labours and Letters, by H . Sadler (1891) .
It is often asserted that Dunckerley revised
the Craft Lectures and reconstructed the
Royal Arch Degree, but there is no proof
forthcoming of these statements. [E . L . H .]
Dupaty, Louis Emanuel Charles Merrier.
The author of many Masonic songs
and other fugitive pieces inserted in the Annales
Magonniques . , He wrote in 1810, with
Rev roui de Saint-Cyr, a comic opera entitled
"Cagliostro ou les Illumines ." In 1818, he
published a Masonic tale entitled "l'Harmonie
." He was a poet and dramatic writer
of some reputation. He was born in the
Gironde in 1775, elected to the French Academy
in 1835, and died in 1851 .
Duty. The duty of a Mason as an honest
man is plain and easy . It requires of him
honesty in contracts, sincerity in affirming,
simplicity in bargaining and faithfulness in
performing . To sleep little, and to stud
much ; to say little, and to hear and think
much ; to learn, that he may be able to do ; and
then to do earnestly and vigorously whatever
the good of his fellows his country, and mankind
requires, are the duties of every Mason .
Dyaus . Sanskrit for sky ; bright, exalted .
The Deity, the sun, the celestial canopy, the
firmament .
"Dye na Sore," or "Die Wanderer aus
dem Sanskrit Ubersetzt ." A Masonic romance,
by Von Meyern, which appeared at Vienna
in 1789, and contains a complete account of
Masonic festivities.